Improved fagot for railroad-rail



@1t-itch faire istrnt @Hite WILLIAM LEIG'HION, 0F WYANDOT'IE, MICHIGAN.

Letters Patent No. 75,433, dated lllarch 10, 1868.

IMPROVED FAGOT FOR RAILROAD-RAIL tite Stimmt nitriet it iu time @titers ntmt mit making mi tf tige stmt.

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known-thetLIVILLIAM LEIGHTON, of Wyandotte, in the county of Wayne, in the State of Michigan, have invented a new :1nd useful Improvement in the Manufaetureof Steel-Headed Rails for Railroad and othei` purposes; and I do declare that the following is a full and accurate description thereof, reference boing had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, and making aJ part of this specification.

Figure 1 represents my improved fagot from which to roll a railroad-ba,r, and

Figure 2 represents an end view of a rail rolled from said fagot. v l

My inventionl consists in combining with a. pile, C, composed of iron barsJ a. V-shapcd bar of steel, A, which has a. dove-tailed alnge, B, projecting from its lower angle, extending from one end to the other, and. so arranged in relation to the pile that its angles, D D, are protected from burning by the iron portion of the pile, as shown. The fagot should be heated, by placing it in the furnace with the steel side at the bottom. In case of an imperfeet weld, in rolling the rail, the steel is not only weil wrapped around the head of the rail, but is held firmly in plateel by the dove-tail-shaped end above described.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The Y or dove-toil-shaped piece of steel, with V-shnped top, in conjunction with any suitable fagot which will make a. rail, as shown in fig. 2.

WILLIAM LEIGHTON.

Witnesses:

J. W. HoUenTELIN, H. S. SPRAGUE. 

